Don't ask me why, but my youngest daughter (age 7) decided she needed her own prayer room.
Given the limited availability of free space in our home, she resorted to utilizing the tiny, downstairs shower stall in our second bathroom.
As you can see, she has decorated using a Christmas paper tube cross and smaller white paper cut outs.
She also took a bedside table from my bedroom, covered it with a piece of pink fleece, added a small book featuring the New Testament, Proverbs and Psalms, flowers and a donation jar.
Voila! A prayer room.
There's a little note taped onto the Ball canning jar inviting donations, so that "we can be Jesus for others by providing for the needy".
Her attention to the small details was endearing. She is perhaps the sweetest, most God loving seven year old I've yet to meet.
....and yes, I prayed in her prayer room today.
We laughed, God and I.
We laughed with the sheer joy of knowing this beautiful seven year old child of mine.
It was a holy, albeit cramped moment between God and myself. A moment made possible by the makeshift prayer room of a seven year old child.
My child.
Oh, how I love her.
2 comments:
Jerri,
Wow...this is so full of what God desires in pure worship!
I was awake today @ 2:30am...one of the things I was pondering was the purpose in our (people of Christ) coming together in a planned way is to acknowledge who God is! Also to acknowledge how "knowing" God influences who we are and how we live.
Not formulaic, not scripted... rather responsive living!
Your Ciara demonstrates that with her recognition of God, her need and desire for time and space that is uniquely set aside for meeting with Him.
I am encouraged today!
Thank you friend for sharing!
this is wonderful jerri!
she's so sweet.
love you.
meesh
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